It’s funny. It’s about work. It’s like a documentary. That sounds a great material to learn English that prepare you for the corporate life. Watch The Office, the popular American TV series that mock the modern work life.

At NBC’s website, you can choose to watch the full episodes, the highlight scenes, the best of the episodes, or even deleted scenes.

Harvard Business Review is a monthly magazine that ranks high among senior executives, management consultants, and business school professors.

It would be way too boring for language learners to read the typical jargon-rich long articles of HBR. But watching the short video clips it produces can be a good learning experience. Most are the short interviews it conducted with the business school professors or senior executives. Here are a few samples: Innovate Like Google, Managing Generation Y, and The Dangers of Nepotism.

National Public Radio (NPR) produces and distributes news and cultural programming over 700 public radio stations in the U.S, reaching 27 million Americans each week. Its diverse contents and sheer volume are great leaning materials for English learners.

For those who reside outside the U.S., the best way to listen to NPR is through streaming through its website. It presents the programming under three categories: News, Arts&Life, and Music. You can hear them at Listen page. Besides radio broadcasting, NPR also produces video reporting under Multimedia page.

Voice of America (VOA) should be a familiar voice to many English learners worldwide. It’s a radio broadcasting set up by the U.S. government during the World War Two. Today it broadcasts the programs through television and Internet, too.

Reason is a monthly magazine that covers politics, culture and ideas. It advocates on the principle of libertarianism of “free minds and free markets”.

Here is the reason you should visit Reason’s website: The Drew Carey Project and other great video clips under the Reason.TV section. They tell interesting stories–what is this “Food Fight” in Los Angeles all about; what is in common between soccer star David Beckham and Mexican labors (hint: “Immigration“), or Kidneys for sale.

The start of Success magazine went back all the way to the 19th century; ever since, it has had many changes and reinvention. Its latest relaunch declared that it went back to its root: the magazine for entrepreneurs.

Whether it will succeed is hard to tell. In its reinvention, Success added a video section at its website. There are not a lot video clips yet. Most of the video clips are motivational talks (such as On Failure and The 8th Habit).

These are good materials for the learners, especially if you need a few drops of inspiration to stay on your learning.